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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a high school teacher.

None of your kids need their phones on them in class. Not one. They stay in the pouch and the class environment is 10x better than it’s been in years. They’re talking to each other, completing their work, engaging in the lesson. If they finish work early, they pull out their book and read or talk to one another, or finish work for another class instead of scrolling.

It doesn’t matter if you think YOUR kid will never touch theirs or will only do when they finish their work. Most don’t do that. The constant “put your phone away, put your phone away” reminders are gone so the lesson is less interrupted. They’re not rushing their work to sit and scroll. They’re not bombarded with 200 notifications from their group chats and snap while they try to focus. They’re not texting you about whatever nonsense you think just can’t wait until the end of the day. EVERYONE is better off when they’re required to be in that pouch. [/quote]

Another HS teacher.  While this is true, the pouches will never work because such a large percentage will put something else in pouch (an old phone, a fake phone, an empty phone case).  The pouches are wasting tax dollars.  It will be the same as it is now when we collect phones.  I wish you would all keep them at home.  That is the only true way to prevent them from being used in class.  [/quote]

Other districts are using the pouches with success and with no reports of significant numbers of dummy phones in the pouches.  This may be an issue with some schools/students but does that mean that no schools should try it?  [/quote]

I’m not willing to spend my tax dollars on that experiment.  You are free to give schools a hefty donation so they can “try it.” [/quote]

A) You don’t get to decide how schools spend money 
B) your personal tax contribution amounts to a few pennies of the overall budget 
C) the hanging classroom pouches  we are discussing cost like $10 each on Amazon. $10 per classroom to help children have better academic experiences and outcomes. There’s honestly not a better ROI on ANY other education spending aside from perhaps hiring more staff to reduce class sizes. [/quote]

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